u/TheHobbyist — The Hobbyist

Sure, but that has not changed with this official enablement, or has it?

What's been janky about it? I have it installed on a custom build since like February, never had any hiccups, besides the same rare issues on my steam deck (some occasional sound issues when switching between desktop and game mode, recently now solved I think).

It's otherwise been a flawless experience. Config is pure AMD : 5800X + 7600 XT 16GB with 16GB RAM.

I was just hoping to get a steam controller but that proved harder than expected :(

I'm running the official steamOS on an AMD computer (cpu+gpu) and it works great. Sometimes switching between desktop and gaming mode messes up the audio (no audio) but I use desktop mode rarely so it's a non issue to me. I can always fix it by manually reconfiguring the audio output device or restarting the computer. It's a great experience otherwise :)

Oh yes the 2.0 was also great! They added the rewind feature which is pretty cool.

Both of them can work on the steam deck, though they don't out of the box.

For dirt you have to add a launch option `WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=4`

https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/issues/328

And for dirt 2 you need to add a fix for Xbox live.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/10ehkot/has_any_one_gotten_colin_mcrae_dirt_2_working/

https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader/releases/download/Win32-latest/xlive-Win32.zip

You're a gem of a contributor, love the style and content and thank you for making this specifically for Lemmy, much appreciated! :)

Edit: and regarding what I'm playing lately, I'm playing Colin McRae Dirt from 2007 which I recently managed to get working on the steam deck. A fun racing game!

I find this to be great and am particularly comforted by the following:

**Can my SteamOS Compatibility test results be worse than Deck Verified?**\

No. SteamOS Compatibility results will all be the same or higher than Steam Deck Verified results.

Funnily, my mind first made me consider pressure by Microsoft to raise the steam version cost to make it a less attractive proposition compared to the windows version, before realizing this was a tariff reaction. Goes to show how I imagine Microsoft's powers and intentions in my mind :)

Quick note, in some countries you can get refurbished steam decks:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamdeckrefurbished/

Rumors denied by Valve

Even better translation: Stone-Wolf !

Big +1 for portal 2. Great all rounder which will have you puzzled and confused and entertained haha

I find KDE connect to be both useful and interesting to use. It's not really recommendable in and of itself but it makes connecting between your various devices very effective, like file transfer, clipboard sharing, remote control etc.

With regards to casual gaming, I personally don't have anything to recommend because that's exactly the kind of game I try to avoid. I like involved games, interesting, with a story, a purpose, requiring thinking and such. But what I can say is that the steam deck is so effective with its sleep functionality that you can very casually play any involved game no matter how much time you have.

It is so easy to be back in the game: I've played the witcher 3 a lot (highly recommend it if you have not played it) and it is a very involved game, but I've been in and out for even just a few minutes thanks to sleep. It takes one second to be back in the game fighting some enemies and takes a second to pause the game and put the console back to sleep in my backpack. You don't have to restrict yourself to casual games to benefit from casually playing, with the steam deck.

Yes, became my absolute favorite game :)

Yeah, even the bundle of the base game together with both dlc is a steal.

The Witcher 3 two DLCs, now that I finished the base game.

Legend, I have been looking for that for a while, and it is the cherry on top that it does not require booting into the uefi!

The way I see it, is because of the controls. You have a much stronger reaction with a mouse than a joystick. Anytime you play with a mouse, the reaction time is expected to be lower because you I dictate where you want to be looking (like in am fps). The mouse acts as a view positioning device. It is not forgiving. A joystick however is a rotation device. It tells how fast you want to be moving around when looking, not where it should be looking. It is much more forgiving because you only dictate the speed of rotation. If you plugged in a mouse in your deck and played it on the deck you would immediately notice the difference I imagine. I think the trackpads do bring some aspects of the mouse to the deck too in that regard.

But yeah, my takeaway is, with a joystick you don't need that tight of a latency as with a mouse.

Has anyone been following the development of 3.6? What are some highlighted features or bugs being addressed?

Have used my BT headset for almost a year and never had an issue. What are you referring to?

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